Word: bathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nightcap) and three rotund nudes, was painted in 1908 when Renoir was already an old man, deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were for the most part in Renoir's early manner. Outstanding were a luscious Bather and a self-portrait of the old gentleman in a white duck...
...front cover) One day last week a bather at Bethany Beach, Del. walked into the surf wearing his wrist watch. The salt water all but ruined the watch but did not harm the bather. For sea baths, sunshine and rest in company with his wife were decidedly good for General Hugh S. Johnson?all the better because, as the watch incident showed, he was still preoccupied with business...
...Bather In White Plains, N. Y. court J. Bruce Thompson, North Carolina cotton broker, demanded release from the insane asylum to which his brother had had him committed, was asked by the judge: "Isn't it true that at one time you tried to take a bath in corn whiskey?'' Replied J. Bruce Thompson: "I reckon I did try to do that in one of my more debauched moments...
...Kathleen Murphy from her bed in London's purlieus at 3 a. m.; to the Serpentine went she. Others dove in before the official opening hour (4:30 p. m.), were arrested, but not Kathleen Murphy. Shivering in rain she waited, was first officially authorized Serpentine woman bather. Explained Kathleen Murphy: "I've never been first in anything in my life...